巴布亚新几内亚部落与科学家联手保护珍稀树袋鼠
High in the misty cloud forests of Papua New Guinea lives one of the world's most elusive marsupials: the tree kangaroo. Unlike its ground-dwelling Australian cousins, this creature spends most of its life in the canopy, leaping between branches with surprising agility. Yet deforestation and hunting have pushed several species to the brink of extinction, with only a few thousand individuals remaining in the wild.
For generations, local clans considered tree kangaroos a traditional food source. But a growing awareness of their rarity has sparked a quiet revolution. In villages around the Torricelli Mountains, hunters are voluntarily swapping their spears for notebooks, becoming citizen scientists who track the animals' movements and report sightings to conservation biologists.
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